298 LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Pulicaria^ 



form and homogamous, yellow ; ray fl. <j> , 1-2-seriate, ligules narrow, or minute 

 or ; disk fl. $ , fertile, slender ; limb elongate, shortly 5-fid. Involucre hemi- 

 spheric or obconic ; bracts in few series, narrow, acuminate or awned ; receptacle 

 flat or subconvex, pitted. Anther-bases sagittate; tails capillary, simple or 

 branched. Style-arms of $ linear, obtuse. Achenes terete or ribbed ; pappus 

 double, outer of short jagged teeth, inner of smooth scabrid or bearded filiform 

 or flattened hairs. DISTRIB. Species about 24, European, Asiatic, and African. 



SECT. I. Eupulicaria. Invol. bracts slender. Pappus double ; outer of 

 a crown of short scales, inner of slender hairs. 



1. P. vulgaris, Gaertn.; Boiss. FL Orient, iii. 204; annual, pubescent 

 or softly tornentose, leaves sessile oblong-lanceolate from a ^-amplexicaul base, 

 lower petioled, heads on short stout peduncles, invol. bracts subulate, ligules 

 erect very short, pappus dirty white twice as long as the silky achenes, outer 

 scales lanceolate serrate free. DC. Prodr. v. 478; Clarke Comp. Ind. 128. 

 Inula Pulicaria, Linn. 



KASHMIR, alt. 5-6000 ft., Falconer, Thomson ; Peshawur, Jacguemont, Stewart. 

 DISTRIB. Central and N. Asia, Persia, and westwards to Algeria and Britain. 



Erect, 6-18 in. high, copiously dichotomously subcorymbosely branched above, 

 Leaves ^-1 in. Heads ^-^ in. diam. ; peduncles divaricate ; invol. bracts very woolly 

 in the Kashmir plant, erect or with subrecurved tips ; ligules hardly exceeding the 

 bracts. Achenes very minute ; pappus y 1 ^ in. long. 



2. P. dysinterica, Gaertn.; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iii. 201 ; perennial, woolly 

 or cottony, leaves ^-amplexicaul oblong-cordate waved and toothed, heads 

 densely woolly, invol. bracts setaceous, ligules many long, pappus dirty white 

 four or five times as long as the silky achenes, outer scales lanceolate free. Inula 

 dysinterica, Linn. 



KASHMIR, alt. 5-6000 ft., Falconer, Thomson. DISTRIB. Westwards to Algeria and 

 Britain. 



A more robust plant than P. vulgaris, with ligules much exceeding the invol. 

 bracts, and much longer and more copious pappus. 



3. P. foliolosa, DC. Prodr. v. 480 ; annual, pubescent or tomentose above, 

 leaves sessile linear-oblong or -oblanceolate from a broad or contracted ^-amplexi- 

 caul base quite entire, tips apiculate recurved, heads woolly and glandular, invoL 

 bracts almost setaceous, peduncles very slender, ligules 0, pappus hairs very few 

 white twice as long as the minute hairy achenes, scales connate below. Clarke 

 Comp. Ind. 128. Blumea senecionidea, Edgew. FL Sanda, 16. Conyza folio- 

 losa, Ham. in Wall. Cat. 3281. 



Upper and Lower G-ANOKTIC PLAINS ; Oude, Sikkim, Terai, Maldah, and banks of 

 the Ganges. CENTRAL INDIA ; Sangur and Jubbulpore. BANDA, Edgeworth. The 

 CONCAN, Law, &c. 



Stem 1-2 ft., copiously branched. Leaves 1-6 in., lower dilated from the base 

 upwards, almost glabrous. Heads scattered, smaller than in P. vulgaris or dysin- 

 terica ; ray fl. tubular, 3 -toothed. 



SECT. II. Poloa. Invol. bracts herbaceous or leafy. Pappus of sect. 

 Eupulicaria. 



4. P. Wig-htiana, Clarke Comp. Ind. 118 ; annual, puberulous above, 

 leaves sessile linear-oblong from a sub-auricled base obtuse entire or serrulate, 

 heads solitary, peduncles stout strict, invol. bracts herbaceous lanceolate acute, 

 ligules equalling the bracts, pappus at length reddish twice as long as the 

 glabrate achenes, outer scales united in a cup. P. hyderabadensis, DC. I. c. 480* 



